media - CCTV as the Chinese Al Jazeera

"To build a Chinese Al Jazeera", that is how Li Xiguang of Tsinghua University describes his idea on how the new CCTV International that is going to be launced next month should look like in the daily quote of the Chinabiz-email service, giving a nice flavor to the media discussion.
The Central TV station wants to get rid of its boring image of a government mouthpiece, says the original article in the South China Morning Post. Would now Al Jazeera be a good role model? The Arabic TV station could at least not be blamed to be a mouthpiece of Arab governments, and that seems to worry some governments overthere. Mr. Li is probably not getting it his way.
First reviews (I do not watch Chinese TV when I can avoid it, but should perhaps change that for a few months) are not flattering for the new Australian anchor man Edwin Maher.